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Yes, it's that time of year again. Since @petrusbroder is busy, I suppose I should start the voting thread this year.
This year's Pentathlon replaces Swimming with something called Javelin Throw. Out of five days in the race, our score will be based on the middle day, not the two best or the two worst. The five days may not even be consecutive! That will be one of the quorum 1 projects.
At least two of the chosen projects will be quorum 1. At most one of the chosen projects will have a good GPU app.* One World Community Grid sub-project will be chosen as the Marathon project. The other possible projects are:
Cr Q GPU Project
?. 1 N Cosmology@Home **
?. 1 N LHC@home **
F. 1 N NFS@Home ***
?. 1 N SRBase
N. 1 N YAFU
?. 1 N yoyo@home
F. 1 Y Collatz Conjecture
?. 2 N RakeSearch
?. 2 * Amicable Numbers*
F. 2 Y Einstein@Home
N. 2 Y SETI@home
Cr = Credit. F. = Fixed, O. = Old, N. = New, T. = runTime
*Amicable Numbers supposedly has a bad GPU app. If chosen it won't be counted as the one GPU project.
** Requires VirtualBox.
*** NFS requires a gigabyte or more of RAM per task.
There are 11 projects there, but I can only put ten in a poll, I think. So if there's one we really want to do, or one we really don't want to do, then I can post a poll with the rest.
This year's Pentathlon replaces Swimming with something called Javelin Throw. Out of five days in the race, our score will be based on the middle day, not the two best or the two worst. The five days may not even be consecutive! That will be one of the quorum 1 projects.
At least two of the chosen projects will be quorum 1. At most one of the chosen projects will have a good GPU app.* One World Community Grid sub-project will be chosen as the Marathon project. The other possible projects are:
Cr Q GPU Project
?. 1 N Cosmology@Home **
?. 1 N LHC@home **
F. 1 N NFS@Home ***
?. 1 N SRBase
N. 1 N YAFU
?. 1 N yoyo@home
F. 1 Y Collatz Conjecture
?. 2 N RakeSearch
?. 2 * Amicable Numbers*
F. 2 Y Einstein@Home
N. 2 Y SETI@home
Cr = Credit. F. = Fixed, O. = Old, N. = New, T. = runTime
*Amicable Numbers supposedly has a bad GPU app. If chosen it won't be counted as the one GPU project.
** Requires VirtualBox.
*** NFS requires a gigabyte or more of RAM per task.
There are 11 projects there, but I can only put ten in a poll, I think. So if there's one we really want to do, or one we really don't want to do, then I can post a poll with the rest.
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